CONTENTS A Personal Note ix 1. On Our Way 3 2. Summons to Buna 17 3. The Bitter Days at Buna 83 4. Sanananda 50 5. Australia and the Amphibs 63 6. My Ward Mrs. Roosevelt 78 7. Fight for the Huon Peninsula 89 8. Up the Ladder to Hollandia 100 9. We Build the Airfields 113 10. Operation Ferdinand 123 11. Biak: Battle of the Caves 135 12. The New Eighth Army 155 13. Leyte Campaign 165 14. The Dash for Manila 181 15. Fifty-two D-Days 200 16. Mindanao 216 17. Grand Tour 232 18. The Mountains of Luzon 246 19. Japan: Peaceful Invasion 259 20. Japan: Occupation 268 21. Japan: The Future 280 Organic Regiments of Divisions in the Pacific 291 Index 295